yes! I have a pit bull and he's the sweetest thing

They want to bannish the Pitbull breeds in Sweden as well. I think it's really stupid. I lived in a family with 8 Staffordshire Bullterrier's and they are lovely dogs. It's the owners fault if the dog attacks someone and appears agressive. NOT the dog.

I have not had a pit bull myself but am dying to have one one day. My sister had an american blue pit bull from a puppy (which I would always suggest for a pit bulls unless you are confident of its upbringing). He was the sweetest dog I have ever met. The day I met him I had to help feed him and force him to drink as he had parvo. The dog had never met me before, was very sick and clearly very stressed and as I was forcing dioralyte down his throat, his teeth touched my hand. I said 'ow' as instructed by my sister (her training word) and he immediately opened his jaws as much as he could, despite the turkey baster down his throat. How can anyone say this dog is dangerous? Later in the same trip, my sister took in another pitbull which was being badly bullied by an older one at her friends house. Even in his heightened state of anxiety and fear, he still let me (a woman he'd never met before who smelled like another dog) clean all of his wounds. He slept in my room for a week and the only problem we had the whole time was my sister's pit bull getting protective of us. This happened twice and only when the other pit was stressed and scared. Not once did either get the slightest bit aggressive. The only indication that Grey didn't trust the new pit was that he was staying very close to us. Bearing in mind that these two dogs had never met, I think all of this 'pits are inherently dangerous' is a load of crap.

Many dog breeds have attacked people and they aren't illegal in some states or anything like that. Why only pitbulls?

Ok, so I don't have a pit bull type dog but I've been around many of them and they were very nice dogs. I do have terriers, tiny toy terriers and they will try to attack anything around non-human. Most of this is my fault for failure to properly socialize them but some of this is because terriers were bred to kill things. Rats, mice, snakes, etc. This does not mean they are bad dogs or that they should be banned. Some of them don't have a very high prey drive and some have such a high prey drive they cannot be around fish (my rat terrier cried for days and tried to jump up to get a betta). Dogs should not be banned unless they become a danger to humans. My dogs are not out and about, I have a fenced yard and they only rarely get to go on walks because they get too wound up. I do not allow them around other animals because they can be aggressive. If you get into the debate on why a certain breed should be banned then you are going to eventually move into the territory that another breed can be dangerous and should be banned and then another. ALL dogs can be dangerous, even Chihuahuas and Pomeranians. A child was killed by a Pomeranian and a cop was attacked by a pack of 5 Chihuahuas, Google it. We should not ban them just because they CAN be dangerous but put down the ones who ARE dangerous. Cars can be incredibly dangerous, but no one would ever think of banning automobiles. Why? Because they're too useful. Dogs are too useful to ban also, they sniff for bombs, find people trapped beneath rubble, sniff out cancer now . . . the list goes on and on. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents worth. If you hate pit bulls nothing is probably going to change your mind anyway, but I think they're great. I won't have one though because I think it's unfair to have a larger dog with tiny ones in case a fight does break out and with my little aggressors, I know eventually one would. :(